It's ridiculous to say.

The war in the Americas was already in full swing, but Chen Ming didn't know at this time that another war between China and the West had begun.

Two hundred and twenty years ago, the tradition of news in the East and the West, how slow down was measured in 'months'. If you are lucky, in five or six months, the news will arrive; If you're unlucky, you won't be able to keep it for ten months.

Therefore, Chen Ming did not know about the war in Gibraltar, and at this time he was focusing on the construction of a small train in the royal playground.

Well, this royal playground is the one that Chen Ding originally 'raised funds' to establish. After years of development, it has become a real amusement park, and the area alone has expanded more than tenfold, and it has also stepped on a small small lake to carry out projects such as water bicycles and pedal boats.

Many of the children of Chen Han's powerful family love it here.

And now that it's time for the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Ming decided to give a gift to his grandchildren, and by the way, let the children and grandchildren of Chen Han's high-level magnates open their eyes.

He concentrated his craftsmanship and meticulously built two state-of-the-art steam engines, to be scaled down. Then build two locomotives with a few small sizes, pull five or six carriages, and you can circle around the playground.

Chen Ming came up with this idea because he thought of the little train he rode in the park when he was a child, and decided to make a copy. He thinks his grandchildren will love it.

Maybe those little sons and daughters will like it too.

If the reaction is good, Chen Ming will take out the steamship in the next step.

This matter can't be hidden from the people, and the newspaper will release the news little by little, and when the influence accumulates to a certain extent, he will take these two things to Nanjing City and Qinhuai River. I don't know how long it will take, but the ship has been finalized and the problem of train steering has been made in a breakthrough, and in fact it is not that difficult to solve.

It's a precautionary measure, and it's also an advertisement for future change.

Trains can't steer freely like a car! Its steering is determined by the setting of the track, and the action of the train must be controlled by the track, not independently. One of the functions of the rails is to guide the direction of the train, as long as the wheels of the train are changed, and the rim is added to the inside of the train, the wheel flange can be relied on to ensure that the train runs on the rails - the same principle can be applied to the railroad carriage.

The distance between the train wheelsets is slightly greater than the track gauge, so that the train does not fall off when turning. When turning, the outside rim is stuck tightly on the rail surface, so a snorting sound can be heard. In addition, since the train does not have a differential, the tread of the wheels is not flat and tapered, in order to ensure that the difference between internal and external speed is eliminated when passing through corners.

This problem has been solved, and the road ahead of the train will be smooth.

Although the development of technology is endless, but with the current technology, if you integrate it, the train can already show your hands to the world.

In this regard, the steamship and the train, two epoch-making means of land and water transportation, have been successfully developed.

Although Chen Ming is still worried about the next war with Dabanya, the real focus of his work has shifted to internal affairs.

With the successful development of trains and ships, China's domestic economy and transportation will inevitably set off a monstrous wave. This wave, if used well, can become another wave of help for China's economic development; And if it is not applied well, it will become an obstacle to the further development of China's economy.

Although Chen Ming did not know the obstacles and oppression encountered by trains and ships in history, he was already a political veteran, and of course he knew the impact of the change in transportation on the economy and the interests of some people.

If nothing else, let's just say that Chen Han's thriving sea and river transportation, as well as the thriving carriage and horse shops on the road, those with vested interests must hate these two inventions in their hearts.

This matter must be settled, otherwise, there will be chaos, and if there is trouble, not to mention, the impact will not be good. Chen Ming's face will feel even more faceless.

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Autumn is getting stronger, and the north is already showing a bit of gloom. The dead branches and fallen leaves that cover the streets add to the solemn atmosphere.

Nanjing's streets are still prosperous, and they have not been affected by autumn. Statistics in the summer show that the total number of residents in Nanjing has reached more than one million, and the permanent population has exceeded 1.5 million, plus the short-term floating population, Nanjing, the political center of China, has a huge population of 2 million.

In such a city, the daily consumption of food alone is more than 20,000 stones. In China, Nanjing's population has surpassed that of the emerging Shanghai and the aging Guangzhou, and it has left behind Yanjing, which has bottomed out in recent years.

The weather is getting cooler, the night is shrouded, and the pedestrians on the street are also decreasing, and occasionally a few acquaintances meet on the road, and the chatter quickly disperses.

Only the wonton stand on the corner of the street still has lanterns hanging from it.

On this slightly cold day, drinking a bowl of hot wontons is not only to warm your hands and feet, but sometimes also to fill your belly.

It is not easy to live in Chang'an.

The ancients knew the truth thousands of years ago, and there is no reason why it will not be repeated in the current city of Nanjing.

With the stability of the political situation of Chen Han and the rapid development and rapid recovery of the domestic economic market, the prices in Nanjing have also risen. Young people who have not yet started a family, especially those who have just started a job after graduating from university or college, or who have not yet found a suitable job, are not as sought-after as they were 20 years ago. In the past 20 years of development, the number of college students, college students, vocational college graduates, junior college students, etc., has increased geometrically. Although it can't compare with the exaggerated madness from the 80s to the first decade of the 2000th century, the scale of Chen Han's economy today is far from being comparable to that of China in the first decade of the 21st century, right?

In any case, the employment problem encountered by higher education graduates is a real problem that is gradually emerging from the bottomless pool of 'society', and countless people have to face it seriously.

It is said that the Ministry of Culture and Education has already decided that the next step is to strictly require the admission qualifications of institutions of higher learning and reduce the number of students in institutions of higher learning at the root.

Chen Ming doesn't mean anything about this, is this a trend of social and economic development?

In times of difficulty and need, the state should expand the number of graduates of institutions of higher learning, so that social development can obtain as many high-quality talents as possible. And when this situation has become full, then reduce the number of graduates from institutions of higher learning to society, so that the word 'higher education' can also be preserved, right?

As for the development of higher education to the popularization or the stage of Europe and the United States in the 21st century, Chen Han still has a long, long way to go. Now they have just taken the first step. Don't think about it that long-term.

Some of the new graduates who are waiting to be employed, or who have found a job, have moved out of the school, but they are hungry at night, and they don't have any money left in their pockets to go to the restaurant. And the restaurant that is still open at night is not cheap.

As a person who doesn't have much money in his pocket and doesn't pay much attention to eating and drinking, Wang Qingren is sitting in front of a very ordinary wonton stall at this moment, holding a bowl of hot wontons, and drinking happily. Sitting next to him was his friend Li Rui, who was also holding a sea bowl and drinking hot wontons.

Wang Qingren is not yet 18 years old, but he is already a second-year student at Nanjing Medical College. And his teacher Wang Zhizheng values Wang Qingren very much, not because Wang Qingren was the same family as him 500 years ago, but because Wang Qingren has the hard work and super strong psychological quality of studying surgery.

Of course, Wang Zhizheng didn't know that his little apprentice was much more famous than him in the original time and space.

And the 'psychological quality' that makes Wang Zhizheng very happy - Wang Qingren is the only case he has seen in his teaching for many years, when he took the first human anatomy class on the first day of school, there was no discomfort.

Wang Qingren is not bloodthirsty, Wang Zhizheng can clearly see that Wang Qingren is also enduring nausea, in fact, many people are enduring nausea.

On the first day of school, such a fierce class is to make students feel well prepared.

The difference is that some people can endure it, such as Wang Qingren, such people are very rare. But Wang Zhizheng couldn't do it himself. The other students vomited, and they vomited acid water instead of spitting out the paste.

Wang Qingren became an instant hit in the eyes of Mr. Wang.

Then in the summer vacation after one academic year, Wang Zhizheng officially found a job for Wang Qingren and served him as an assistant - while Wang Zhizheng was working in Nanjing Medical College, he was also the first knife in the Affiliated Hospital of the Medical College.

Wang Qingren children's shoes showed that he was really talented in surgery, and then he had to find a house outside the school.

Now that the disembowelment is an operation of this magnitude, Wang Qingren has already seen it like water.

But how did Wang Zhizheng know that Wang Qingren in history, in the conservative social environment at that time, went to the execution ground many times to observe the execution. In the fourth year of Jiaqing, a young woman in Fengtianfu was executed by Ling Chi, because she was not a man, and it was inconvenient to get closer.

That large-scale scale is much bolder than the disembowelment in today's society where 'surgery' is endless.

It's just that Wang Qing let him study medicine, and he can't get along with ships and trains at all, and the one who can really catch up is his roommate Li Rui, who shares a house next to him.

Li Rui, a native of Suzhou, is one year younger than Wang Qingren, but his family history is older than Wang Qingren. Before entering the Department of Mathematics of Taixue University, he was already a disciple of Qian Daxin.

Yes, Qian Daxin, Master Qian.

Qian Daxin was one of Chen Ding's early tutors. Although he has not entered the officialdom now, he has been rotating in many universities in the capital, and his name is much bigger than Ji Xiaolan, who has not gone smoothly in the officialdom route.

He is also one of the vice presidents of the Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences.

This Li Rui can get Qian Daxin's favor at a young age, and it is conceivable how talented and intelligent he is. However, Li Rui's most outstanding academic performance is not the ancient Chinese that Qian Daxin is good at, but mathematics.

Although Qian Daxin was a little disappointed, he still had the necessary content, and recommended Li Rui to Taixue University when he was fifteen years old. Once examined, the score was very encouraging. So he and Wang Qingren, who was one year older than him, came to Nanjing in the same year.

And Wang Qingren and Li Rui can rent a place, I have to say that the place where they live is also a treasure of feng shui. I can't guarantee that it will still be a testimony to a good story decades later.

Li Rui's age is still young, but just like Wang Qingren was pulled onto the operating table by Wang Zhizheng, Li Rui was also pulled closer to the train group by his teacher. This train team is not the original research group, but a manufacturing group under the current Train Research Institute, which is responsible for the small train in the Royal Playground.

Skilled craftsmen made two small steam engines, one of which was loaded onto the train and the other kept as a backup. In fact, the so-called backup is the locomotive backup. There is no steam engine that is installed and replaced if there is a problem.

And the construction of a small railway, small locomotives, carriages, etc., is all inseparable from mathematics.

Qian Daxin is not the person in charge of this group, but with his face, it is a piece of cake to cram an apprentice. And for Li Rui, who has already finalized his life route, after entering the Academy of Natural Sciences in the future, this is the qualification.

However, whether it is Wang Qingren who went to the operating table or Li Rui, who joined the working group, there is no salary. And Qian Daxin himself is not a person who is keen on wealth and nobility, otherwise he would definitely be much smoother than Ji Xiaolan and Yuan Mei when he went to take the official road.

Qian Daxin also served as an official in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but he was washed very thoroughly, which is much better than Ji Xiaolan and Yuan Mei's appearance with on their crotches.

Therefore, Li Rui works for nothing in the working group, every morning he comes together to do numbers and tests, he also has to take care of school, and at night he has to return to his 'home' with a bunch of drawings and data to continue to work. As for Wang Qingren, he is grasping every minute to learn knowledge and enrich himself, it is normal for these two people not to sleep at 10 or 11 o'clock at night.

After work/study every day, come out and drink a bowl of hot chaos, which is already a must-have item for two young people with long bodies.

Li Rui's eyes were very sharp, but the thick black halo around him made him look very unenergetic.

Today, since he came back, he has plunged into his hut and has been busy until now. Even the words were in the matter at hand, and he began to say two sentences after the calculation was over.

"The trial run of the small train was on the tenth day of the first month. If you're okay one day, go to the playground and I'll take you in on the train. ”

It's still a seventeen-year-old kid after all.

After working in vain for so many days, what I was thinking about was taking my friends for a ride when the small train was running for a trial.

I don't want his teacher, Qian Daxin's current Academy of Natural Sciences, has held several leadership meetings in a row, but the main body of this meeting is only one - how to hold the patents for train manufacturing and ship manufacturing.

Although the two members of the research group were separated from the Academy of Sciences, now that they have set up their own banners, even if they are still inextricably linked with the Academy of Sciences, it is impossible to give the money to the Academy of Sciences in vain.

These two research groups are the natural owners of these two epoch-making technologies.

The Academy of Sciences is salivating over those two patents.

The previous steam engine patent made them eat fat stomachs, and the Academy of Sciences, as the leader of Chen Han Technology, has seen a lot of inventions and creations over the years, and is even more aware of the profits that an important invention patent can bring. Now they value trains and ships!